Barack Obama's Internet-fueled campaign has transformed the way Americans choose a president. Now, the president-elect's administration plans to change the way Americans — and government — use technology.
If Obama gets his way, all Americans would have broadband Internet access, whether they live in big cities or remote villages. Online life would be safer, with better defenses against cybercriminals. And there would be greater access to government, with online services to let anyone question members of the president's cabinet or track every dime of the U.S. budget. "I think it's not going to happen in the first 100 days, but I think a lot of this can happen in the first term," Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, a media reform organization based in Washington, said.
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Unfortunately, Obama has also come out in favor of extremely heavy regulation of the Internet, and in particular in favor of "network neutrality," which is an extreme form of Internet regulation that prevents Internet providers from managing their networks or containing their costs. If that regulation happens, we can say goodbye to universal deployment. The providers will be struggling to survive; they won't be able to build out.